I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.
BOB DYLANSometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.
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People are crazy and times are strange. I used to care but things have changed
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The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true.
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Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.
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Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.
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I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.
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To live outside the law, you must be honest.
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It’s not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you’re a fake, that’s tougher to live with.
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Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?
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You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.
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How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn’t see?
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May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
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Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
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There is nothing so stable as change.
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I’ll remember you. When I’ve forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best.
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Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don’t let an egg get laid in it by something you can’t see.
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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.
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There are things I could say. But I don’t.
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The purpose of art is to stop time.
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They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
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Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
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You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.
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